I hold the lightning in my hand
Do you want me to release it?
Do you want me to summon the storm?

You are running away
You are lying to yourself
And everyone around you

Do you want me to once again
Pull the scales from your eyes?
I did it once
And you said
"Do you know how much easier it would be to run away?"
I do know. I honor your pain.
Your pain is of your own making.
You have done grievous harm.
Accept. Atone. Seek healing.

I hold the lightning in my hand
I will not let you make this mistake
I love you too much
A true friend
Does not let one she loves
Choose darkness and deception

I hold the lightning in my hand
Do you want me to summon the storm?

I share with you a secret:
You are already in the storm
*You* summoned the storm
Do you deny the storm
it will destroy you
Do you face your fate
With honor and courage
You will be transformed
Healed.

Before you are two gates
One leads to annihilation
Your utter ruin
A life with no honor
Where all your friends who are honorable
turn their faces away from you

The other leads
To a painful path
That leads ever upwards
The path of the heart warrior
The path of the self-actualized one
It is hard, there are rocks and thorns
But it leads to healing and love

Embrace your storm, child
Be reborn in the lightning's flash
and the thunder's crash
Be cleansed in the hard driving rain

Be reborn and seek the light
I have summoned angels
To guide you on your path
In the darkest night, child
You will hear the faint sweet song
And be comforted
But only if you choose rightly.

Choose your fate.
Remember
I hold the lightning in my hand.

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/cuteoverload/1399372.html

Presented without comment because really, there's just nothing to add to this one.

*deep breath*

Lesley has a lot of overseas study opportunities. One that I've seen that I really loved was an Art Therapy program in South Africa. It lasts a semester and involves working with kids on some wonderful community building projects in addition to individual Art Therapy group and individual sessions.

I put in my application for this Fall's South Africa program and my Advisor thinks my chances of getting in and getting financial aid to cover the expenses are excellent.

Perhaps a break from it all is just what I need!

( Or not )

Sex (gazillion sub-categories for this one)
My Kid
School
Food (Fantasizing about things I want to eat, fantasizing about things I want to cook, musing on random recipes, fantasizing about dinner parties I want to throw, no, really, I spend an insane amount of time thinking about food)
Random Musings

This was waiting for me in my inbox this morning. I heard a rumor about it yesterday but wasn't sure how credible it was, this is official from the man himself. Well, well, well. The mayoral race just got even more interesting. If McCrea's supporters (4% of the vote in the Primary) and all of the Yoon/Flaherty supporters get behind this combo, they have a shot. It will be a very close race, methinks and interesting to watch. My stepdad is thrilled to be back to work on the campaign.

* * *

Dear supporters and friends,

Last Tuesday, almost 50% of people who went to the polls voted for change.

 They demanded new leadership in our city and a change in the way we do business. Even after Mayor Menino rolled out his political machine, spent a staggering $1.5 million, and used all the powers of his 16-year incumbency, half of the city voted against the status quo.

 Our campaign has said again and again that we can't wait four more years for change.



That is why this morning, I will be joining Michael Flaherty in front of City Hall, not just to endorse his campaign for Mayor - but to join it, and to work with him to bring the changes to Boston that we fought so hard for over these past months. 



Starting today, I will campaign alongside Michael Flaherty as his future Deputy Mayor. This is a first step that will change Boston politics for good.



I realize that for Boston, a joint campaign, a Flaherty-Yoon "ticket," is new and different. But we have always said that Boston politics has been too much about taking credit, and not enough about collaboration. So Michael and I will be working together to make the changes that we need in city government.



Over the next several weeks, we will be unveiling our plans for the first 100 days of our administration.

This will include enacting term limits for Mayor - putting an end to the 'Mayor for Life' culture in Boston that has held us back. The Boston Redevelopment Authority has been a breeding ground for back-room dealing and misuse of funds. Michael has asked that as Deputy Mayor I lead the effort to dismantle the BRA and replace it with a true community planning agency.

Of course Michael and I won't agree on everything. But we won't need to. We agree on enough - and most importantly, we agree that change can't wait.

 I believe this to my core. The alternative to acting now is standing still, and our city has been doing that for far too long.



We are asking for you to give everything you possibly can during these next five weeks to change our city. We are facing an entrenched political machine - a machine that won't give up power without a fight. We need your help and we need it now.



Join us - and let's change Boston for good.


Sincerely,

Sam

I think Buddha is my favorite character on the strip. *giggle*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSqaBvaGHuQ

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

Do not have anything in your mouth when watching this and make sure your bladder is empty. Fucking hilarious, like all of the Hitler goes to Burning Man clips.

Recipe acquired by way of pekmez. This really works!

2 cups warm water
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 teaspoons sugar
2 drops dishwashing liquid

Place in an open jar next to your bowl of delicious ripe summer fruit, and watch the fruit flies drown.

Within an hour I had my first dead customers, even more at two hours. I'm going to leave it there for a week or so, skimming off the dead ones daily, and see how many I can slay. Awesome.

I'm with unseelie, this just doesn't sound good to me, this sounds like the plot of a B Horror movie.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009327345_webnukedwasps11m.html

I'm making paneer today for the first time (woohoo!) and realize it's going to generate whey. What are some good recipes to use the whey in? I don't want to waste it. Thank you! :)

Amanda Palmer is dating Neil Gaiman. This on the heels of the Glitch Mob opening for Prodigy in LA recently is making my world mighty surreal.

I can't stop giggling.

Friends purge complete for now. In most cases I removed journals I find myself scrolling past on my friends page or journals where I comment in response to entries but never receive any comments or where I just feel like we never really did click, fell out of touch and moved off in different life directions, etc. In some cases it is related to information control and me feeling safe in my own journal.

If you are unsure of my reasons for removing you and wish to be added back, please do contact me privately and I will be candid about my reasons for the removal and as long as I feel that your intentions towards me are honorable and kind and that you can be trusted, I will add you back. If your intentions towards me are not kind, why are you reading my journal and pretending to be my friend when you are not?

If you don't make the cut and want to know why, I guess you'll have to ask me directly, won't you?

Time for me to feel safe in my own journal again, and lets face it, there are a whole bunch of journals that I never read cluttering up my list and a whole bunch of people who either don't read what I write or read it but never comment.

Time to cleanse all areas of my life.

And the award for weirdest spam subject line for the week goes to:

Emma Watson got fungi

Rather than the more unpleasant interpretations one could make of this, I'm going to assume this refers to the ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms and say "you go girl!"

And then we have this lovely internet toy, an idea whose time has clearly come:

http://www.dramabutton.com/

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release
June 1, 2009

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2009

- - - - - - -

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans.

LGBT Americans have made, and continue to make, great and lasting contributions that continue to strengthen the fabric of American society. There are many well-respected LGBT leaders in all professional fields, including the arts and business communities. LGBT Americans also mobilized the Nation to respond to the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic and have played a vital role in broadening this country's response to the HIV pandemic.

Due in no small part to the determination and dedication of the LGBT rights movement, more LGBT Americans are living their lives openly today than ever before. I am proud to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an Administration. These individuals embody the best qualities we seek in public servants, and across my Administration -- in both the White House and the Federal agencies -- openly LGBT employees are doing their jobs with distinction and professionalism.

The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress, but there is more work to be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect.

My Administration has partnered with the LGBT community to advance a wide range of initiatives. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security. We must also commit ourselves to fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic by both reducing the number of HIV infections and providing care and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS across the United States.

These issues affect not only the LGBT community, but also our entire Nation. As long as the promise of equality for all remains unfulfilled, all Americans are affected. If we can work together to advance the principles upon which our Nation was founded, every American will benefit. During LGBT Pride Month, I call upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people to work together to promote equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.

BARACK OBAMA

The non-spoiler review:

I went in with no expectations and it rocked my world so hard and my brain hurt so bad that all I can do is sit in the corner and whisper "Artichoke" from time to time, while smiling beautifically.

( SPOILERS GO HERE: Interesting casting choices are where the mindfuck begins... )

You know when a guy gets wood and pokes you in the middle of the night with it? Apparently there is a name for that:

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1397

I just friended this journal after having had over the course of a few weeks, a whole darn lot of funny peektures from their journal pointed out to me.

Cross Species romance:
http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1594934.html

More Cross Species romance, a cat and her boy:
http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1591029.html

For izzbot, Dial-A-Lllama:
http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1591167.html

"before i go, shall i tell you about the letter i did not send joss whedon?" And he did. At length. About how he thought Joss was the director to do a Lone Ranger movie. He has a point.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

I have tears in my eyes from laughing too hard, and I really think I had better hit the head if I want dry panties... OH GOD that shit was funny. And on that note... bedtime.